Yet the quintet appears at ease with the hiatus. “The break helped us to learn the business and different types of music, [while] some of us played with different bands,” says turntablist Jeremy Little. Jeremy and his brother Jeffrey (the band’s drummer) run their own label Laguna Music, and they see the long interval as a chance to refine the band’s reggae rock-meets-rap core sound. “To us, our sound is fresh, but it’s still Prana and sounds like Prana,” they say. “We’ve blended all the stuff we’ve learnt along the way.”
Nevertheless, even as 2009 cycles to an end, it seems like the band is finally exhaling themselves onto an unsuspecting public. Founding members Eric Ruffin and Pablo Torrejon have returned as vocalist and bassist respectively, and with guitarist Mian completing the lineup, the band have spent the last three months in the studio working on new material. A new single is in the works, and in December, they will tour Kota Kinabalu (Sabah) and Johor Bahru (Johor) as part of the Sounds Unite tour (presented by DiGiMusicLive) alongside leading acts like Bittersweet, SevenCollar T-Shirt and One Buck Short. Evidently, the time has come to let it all out.
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